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Article #4897Re: Wild computer language names
From: ha... John Hayes
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 1990 22:07
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 1990 22:07
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In <10...@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> mnee...@iiic.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) writes: >Of course, there is also MUMPS. Don't know what this stands for, but the >language indeed looks sick. If my memory serves me, MUMPS stands for MassachUsetts general hospital Multiple Processing System. It was primarily designed for database work in the medical field. This was before RDBMs, each field to be sorted on had to have a separate index at the beginning of the database. The language itself had 18 keywords, each of which was abbreviated to 1 letter. Code segments had to be <2k in length. >Matthias John. -- John Wm. Hayes ha...@ultra.com UltraNetwork Technologies (408)922-0100 x202
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!ultra!hayes From: ha...@ultra.com (John Hayes) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Wild computer language names Message-ID: <1990Oct5.220745.3783@ultra.com> Date: 5 Oct 90 22:07:45 GMT References: <15893@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <10402@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Organization: Ultra Network Technologies Lines: 22 Posted: Fri Oct 5 23:07:45 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit